D. Barkley Briggs > Quotes

“Hope never stands alone,” he said in a dry, husky voice. “It is born of valor and perseverance. It rides the back of courage.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Book of Names

“The double-minded, the complainer, the lazy, the self-centered, these will never complete the hard road. Every sky has rain. Every journey has a hard road.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Song of Unmaking

“since when have you known any truth to be popular? Eh? Since when have you seen truth revered above all other considerations? Will crowds follow the man of truth, or flee?”
― D. Barkley Briggs, Corus the Champion

“It is because you are marked. And evil, which never sleeps, has taken notice. In short, you are now in danger.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Book of Names

“We are lost in this world, but we are never lost, because we know who we are!”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Book of Names

“what else might your eyes perceive, if only you thought to look?”
― D. Barkley Briggs, Corus the Champion

“power alone is an empty road. If you wish to envy something, envy strength of heart. The choices you make, the one you serve—these are more powerful than all the world’s magic.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Book of Names

“But deeper still was the revelation that home was more than a place, more than a spot on a map. Home was an idea, a strange convolution of emotion, identity, and experience.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Book of Names

“You act as if you don’t believe in the Devourer, but what you don’t understand is how much he believes in you.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Ravaged Realm

“But I want to learn.” “And that’s a fine start. Fine, indeed. But I can’t undo in a day all you’ve learned.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, Corus the Champion

“Changing a person’s mind was one thing. Changing your own was something entirely different.”
― D. Barkley Briggs, The Song of Unmaking

“Robert Arthur Mathews was part of Britain’s Force 136, a special force operating out of India into Burma and Malaya (modern Myanmar and Malaysia) during World War II. He also served for many years as a missionary with the China Inland Mission. In his book Born for Battle, Mathews writes,”
― D. Barkley Briggs, Ekklesia Rising: The Authority of Christ in Communities of Contending Prayer